Sunday, September 29, 2013

Families are forever!

Here you go as we recived it :)

안녕하십니까!!!! Wow it has been another crazy awesome week! :) Filled
with learning moments, miracles, and all sorts of crazy experiences :)
but hey whats new, thats just something that comes from being on a
mission! Anyways this week was absolutely awesome! Im not really sure
where to start but the other day we had the opportunity to go to a
Korean style wedding for one of our investigators. It was definitley a
cool experience! :) It was our investigators daughter and she was
getting married to a guy from canada that she met at school! Anyways
turns out he doesn't know any Korean, but lucky for him she knows
english. Anyways I ended up having to translate some of the wedding for
him, mostly just the instructions of what everyone was telling him he
needed to do before the actual wedding started :) haha I can only
imagine how he felt.....im sure a wedding day has a lot of stress, i can
only imagine not being able to understand what is going on at my own
wedding! He was definitley grateful for the help and it turns out he
actually has been looking for a church! We got to have a super awesome
chat and he is going to meet with us and his wife and his new father in
law! :) Their whole family is super awesome and it was such a cool
experience. But it definitley made me grateful for our promise of being
able to be married for time and ETERNITY. Life is short and I can't
imagine not living with my family for all eternity. We develope such
close relationships with those we love and care about, it wouldn't make
sense for God to take those relationships from us after we die. In fact
he hasn't. He intends for marraige to last much longer than 'til death
do we part'. I look back to yesterday
sitting in the baptismal service and feeling the spirit bare witness to
me of the power of the sacred ordinances to bind things both on earth
and in heaven. I know God truly loves us, he has given us a family to
learn, grow, and help one another. And He wants us to be together
forever. I am so grateful for the sacred privilege of eternal marriage
and eternal families. Power comes from a family bound together in
righteousness. Here in Korea there are definitley lots of struggles that
come from being a member of the church; however I have seen the
families and the wards here come together to provide strength, support,
and happiness to one another. Let us all look for opportunities to
strengthen our relationships with those we love, for our families truly
are the greatest gift our father in heaven has given us. This week I
have had many opportunities to look back on my missionary time and see
the growth and change that has happened in me. It has been truly
tremendous. A journey, that is just beginning, but a journey that as I
look back on I am so grateful for! I have learned and grown so much and I
intend to learn and grow so much more! I love you all so much and am so
grateful for the support you all have given me! Keep working hard and
remember that if we put our trust in God we can not fail! :)